@Jarlax have you ever compared Hydroguard to this Amazon.com : Southern Ag Garden Friendly Biological Fungicide,16oz : Patio, Lawn & Garden Much better deal IMO. Lovin’ the grow.
@Jarlax I’d be interested in learning more about your filter set up and cleaning ritual. Your water and roots look very good.
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@MoMule thanks mo, im flattered.
I have not compared Hydroguard to other products. As long as its not a pesticide, fungacide Algacide, then it should be ok. What you dont want is it eatingvattacing any other benificals you may add. Some folks grow sterile in those examples the grower will add H202 or something like Pysan 20 that kills anything but the plant.
Filtration Setup -
The resivor acts as a filter as a whole. The recirculating 2000 gph pump feeds the buckets, gravity forces the water to be level forcing the 2000 gph through a single 3" infeed drain pipe going to the res. I have a pump bag filter tied onto the pipe prefiltering anything coming back. The chiller has a 900 gph pump that recirculates inside the res. These 2 pumps, chillier and recirc are in a mesh bag, and also have built in filters. This adds another layer of filtration going out, and the chiller re-feeding the res. The fluval canister filter has a 900 gph pump built in, it also recirculates inside the res.
So if you think about it, 2000 gph is going out/getting pulled in, but then 2000 gph is also being recirculated at the same time through the filter and chiller.
Cleaning Bacteria addes weekly -
Dr. Tims Waste Away bacteria for aquariums eats root rot.
Muck Away bacteria for ponds - eats everything not alive , keeps inside of pipes, buckets, and res clean.
Barley Staw Extract - prevents all algae
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If you compare labels it’s the same as hydroguard but much more concentrated and for a better price.
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Day 17 from light flip to 12/12. Light management today lol. This time around i actually fed them the correct ratios of additves to plant food and simply reduced all amounts by the same percentage. End result… Oh s*** lol. I will be trying to raise the lights after work today sense ILGW Bruce Banner wants to be 7’ tall. Short story is either im getting clearance for lights or im cutting the tall ones off and call it a learning experience
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Very nice brother!! You got some trees going on!! 
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Tried to get clearance, wasnt happening, but i did get some. So, Bruce Banner got a haircut to grow the rest of the bud. The big tops i removed, makes you cry inside a little. I know that the 6 i cut off would have been arm size bud, but in cutrent state the light would have only burned them.
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I feel your pain of them growing into light, lol. Frustrating
Still slowly pruning these, some light stress for obvious reasons. Here are some ladder pics.Adjusted lights, prunded a bit today.
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Filter cleaned today, this will be about 21 days sense 12/12 light flip. Here are some of the trunks with a coke can for context.
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Awesome trunk porn!!
Few more, Breakfast n bud, some light burn
Gelato Runtz
King Cone
ILGW Bruce Banner after the hair cut growing into the light.
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Update for the week. Started week 6 from 12/12, about 7 weeks left + or - until these finish. A tiny bit of color starting to appear, but for the most part everything is getting bigger, and is still green/white with no orange yet. Breakfast 'N Bud went hermie, I inspect daily so im fairly confident nothing got polinated. I cut her down last night and will be spreading her ashes in the lawn when i mow it in for fertilizer. On the bright side I will have the best smelling lawn in the neiborhood.
Right now these are all avout 6.5 feet tall.
Bteakfast n Bud - Hermie starting on calyx off with her head!
ILGW -Girl Scout Cookies
ILGW Bruce Banner - Also now using Breakfast n Buds light.
Elev8 Seeds Gelato Runts -
Elev8 Seeds King Cone
Elev8 Seeds Beaver Cookies
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Sucks about the hermie. Least ya caught it early. All the others are looking great!!
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Some serious pistols on that last picture.
Wow
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Day 42 from 12/12 and the last res change. 1250 ppms, 5.8 - 6.1 PH. Beaver cookies managed to clog the 3" drain enough to raise its water table. I reduced flow to that bucket to compensate and its at about 50%. I may need to install another drain on the end buckets so all have 2, 3" drains, but lets see.
Elev8 Seeds - King Cone
ILGM - Bruce Banner
Elev8 Seeds - Beaver Cookies
ILGM - Girl Scout Cookies
Elev8 Seeds - Gelato Runtz
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So we are about 51 days sense 12/12 light flip. For the most part these look like we are going to go 11-13 weeks minimum on these. Im playing it by ear on when to switch my feed schedule to late flower from regular flower. Basically this is switching out Big Bud for Overdrive. The overdrive will trigger help the ripening process / put them in a final overdrive push for ripe heavy bud and more bud. Once i see a little more color starting to come in ill start the transition, but for now these are still mostly all white and getting bigger. I am going to keep pushing as far as i feel like i can go with Big Bud, thinking start of week 10, may be 9 if i see more color.
Broom for scale:
Elev8 Seeds - Gelato Runtz
ILGM - Girl Scout Cookies
Elev8 Seeds - Beaver Cookies
lol R.I.P. Hermied Breakfant N Bud
ILGM - Bruce Banner
Elev8 Seeds - King Cone
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Very nice brother!! They are fattening up nicely!!
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